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Administration Utilities

To aid in fabric administration, Appistry provides administrative utilities. The administrative installation enables you to install the administrative utilities on a workstation without installing a fabric. You may install these utilities on as many workstations as you wish. Please note that the fabric worker installers automatically install these utilities on a worker.

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Java SE 6 bug on Win32 affects fabric workers and fabric_pkg

Due to a bug in Java SE 6, the msvcr71.dll is required to be in the system path on Win32. This Java SE 6 bug affects fabric workers running Java SE 6, as well as users running fabric_pkg to package fabric applications that use Java SE 6.

The following two links document the bug:
Java 6's Release Notes: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ states "SE 6 applications that use custom launchers must be installed with msvcr71.dll in the same directory as the launcher executable"

Java Bug #6509291:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509291 "Launching java using the jvm.dll no longer works without msvcr71.dll in the system path"

The following is a list of known workarounds. Again, this only occurs on Win32. Unix/Linux has no issues with Java SE 6.

  • Add "Program File\Java\...\bin" to the system path on all Fabric Workers and Administrators (recommended by Appistry as the best solution).
  • Copy msvcr71.dll from Program File\Java\...\bin to the system32 directory on all Fabric Workers and Administrators (this is discouraged by Microsoft).
  • Copy msvcr71.dll from Program File\Java\...\bin to the Fabric\system directory on all Fabric Workers and Administrators (Appistry discourages this).


Installing the Administration Utilities

  1. Go to the directory storing Appistry EAF setup executable.
  2. Double-click setup.exe.
  3. Click I agree to the license agreement and continue with installation.





  4. In the Install list, select the Administration Utilities installation. You may select more than one installation type.





  5. Click Next to accept the default installation directory or enter a different directory, then click Install.



    FABRIC_HOME
    The installation directory that you select becomes the top of FABRIC_HOME, which is C:\Program Files\Fabric\system by default.


  6. The installation is now complete. Click Finish.